Wheelchairs Quotes - Page 5

• You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.

  Jack LaLanne

  Moving, People, Legs

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• Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

  Jonah Lomu

  Doctors, Training, Possibility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

  John Hockenberry

  Israel, America, People

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• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair
  life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally
  getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

  Robert Wyatt

  Happiness, Musician, Relief

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• Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

  Kathy Troccoli

  God, Believe, Eye

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• In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

  Jean Driscoll

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

  Stephen Hawking

  Discovery, Disability, Sometimes

  "Hawking: Is He All He's Cracked Up To Be?" by Michael D. Lemonick, time.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Cheating, Humor

  "The Sarah Silverman Program". Comedy, 2007–2010.

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• I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

  Dolly Parton

  Hair, High Heels, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

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  Ram Dass

  Ocean, Tree, Example

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, People, Suffering

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

  Bill Ayers

  Baby, Mean, Son

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .

  Zach Anner

  Book, Talking, Voice

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

  Tom Robbins

  Young, Strollers, Humans

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.129, Bantam

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• In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Baseball, Daughter, Cancer

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

  Stephen Hawking

  Dark, Science, Giving

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• The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Mean, Adversity

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• Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

  Dorothy Parker

  Money, Healthy, Settling

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.

  Monica Dickens

  Wise, Horse, Feet

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

  Linda Blair

  People, September 11, Golden Retrievers

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